Most HF antennas for 160M, 80M and 40M, based on average height above ground, have a feed Z less than 50 ohms at resonance. Some as low as 20 ohms.
Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 19, 2017, at 12:47 PM, Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net> wrote: > > They're in series when used in the manner being discussed, not parallel. If > you were to connect the two center conductors together and two shields > together at each end, they are in parallel. In such case, the shields go to > one side of the dipole and the center conductors to the other side. > >> On 9/18/2017 8:14 PM, Buck wrote: >> Wouldn't two 50 ohm cables in parallel result in 25 ohm impedance? >> >> >> k4ia, Buck >> K3# 101 >> Honor Roll 8B DXCC >> EasyWayHamBooks.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to rmcg...@blomand.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
